Improvement in fire-engines



E. GLENDILLEN. Fire-Engine.

No. 220,604. Patented Oct. 14, I879.

Q I W Ma N. PErERS, FHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON D C UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.

ELIJAH GLENDILLEN, OF OWEN SOUND, ONTARIO, CANADA.

IMPROVEMENT IN FIRE-ENGINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 220,604, dated October14, 1879; application filed June 7, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIJAH GLENDILLEN, of Owen Sound, in the county ofGrey, in the Province of Ontario, in the Dominion of Canada, haveinvented a new and valuable Improvement in Fire-Engines; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe construction and operation of the same, reference being had to theannexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to theletters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 is a representation of a rear of my fire-engine, and Fig. 2 isa side-elevation view of the same.

This invention relates to fire-engines, and consists in the improvementsin the construction of the same hereinafter fully described, andparticularly pointed out in the claims.

A represents side pieces of the frame of the engine-carriage, A", thearms or extensions of A, which support the hose-reel. B is thesuction-hose of the engine. 0 O are the two cylinders of the engine,which are connected at their base, by the pipe 0, to a plug, a, in thecenter of which the suction-pipe is connected.

0 is a pipe which connects the cylinders at their top, and the hose D isattached to the plug 0 centrally located'in the pipe 0 There are plugs,0 located upon the rear side of the cylinders, opposite the connectionof the pipe 0 for attaching hose singly to each cylinder. A commoncheck-valve is'located in each end of the pipe 0.

E E are the operating-levers, provided with the handles 6 e andsegment-arms 6 which are grooved to retain the chains e and e. Thechains 6 are attached to the lower part of the segments and to the upperpart of the pistons, and the chains 6 are attached to the upper part ofthe segments and the lower part of the pistons. The levers E E aresupported by the bifurcated arms E E.

F is a pulley, which is supported by the bifurcated standardE, situatedbetween the pis- ,tons, and f is a chain which is attached to thepistonG at g, and extends over the pulley F, and is attached to thepiston H at h. The chain f is attached to the piston G at g, a pointabove where f is attached, and passes under the pulley F and is attachedto the piston H at h.

The pistons G and H are tubular, and provided with the air-chambers Gand H. These pistons are provided with the common liftvalves h and anaperture, h The cylinders are provided with the common packing-rings.The bifurcated arms of the standard F are suitably forked to receive andretain the suction-pipe B.

K and K are tool-boxes, and L is the hosereel, which consists of thedisks l 1 provided with the arms 1 and recesses l to receive the bars L,and the clips 1 which are for holding the end of the hose as theoperation of reeling it is commenced.

The reel is not claimed in this application; but the right to make afuture application therefor is reserved.

The operation of the engine is as follows: As the operators force thelever E downward the chain c of this lever raises the piston, and thechain f, passing under the pulley F, forces the piston downward. Anyupward force exerted by other operators simultaneously upon the lever Eforces the piston downward by the action of the chain c, and alsocontributes to raising the piston by the action of the chain f. By thismeans the two pistons are connected and made to act intermittently, andany force exerted upon either lever E or E is applied to both pistons.The air-chambers G and H are connected with the upper portion of thecylinders, which is the water-pressure space,by means of the openings hin the tubular pistons G and H. As the pressure in the Water-space abovethe piston-valvesh is in creased the water rises in the pistons andcompresses the air therein and in the airchambers. This air-pressurecontributes to a full steady jet from the hose.

In reeling up the hose, after the bars near the center are full,the barsof the outer circle of recesses are placed in their proper recesses, andthe ilkeling is continued, by which means the hose lying in the notchesl of the bars L arereeled without being in contact. In case of a hastyunreeling for use, the hose, as it is unreeled, the first coil from theinner bars will displace the outer bars, thus automatically re- 2. In ahand fire-engine, the pulley F, in combination with the chains f and f,the pistons G and H, and the standard F, as and for the purposessubstantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

ELIJAH GLENDILLEN.

Witnesses:

JOHN RITCHIE MCKENZIE, MICHAEL FORHAN.

